Boston :: MA :: USA
| 2 days ago
Factors Influencing Physician Referrals of Patients to Clinical Trials " (.pdf), Journal of the National Medical Association : The study, by University of South Carolina medical researchers, looks at physicians' attitudes and beliefs about recruiting...
Tags: health, study, percent, clinical trials, medicine, disease, hiv
Lisbon Falls :: ME :: USA
| 3 days ago
This report specifies the importance of Stem Cell Research in Cardiology. The study is segmented by Source (Allogenic and Autogenic) and by Type (Bone Marrow Stem Cells, Embryonic Stem Cells, and Other). Projections and estimates are graphically illustrated...
Tags: medicine, Embryonic Stem Cells, bone
Johannesburg :: South Africa
| 3 days ago
Rapid drug treatment of babies with HIV dramatically cuts their risk of death and debilitating disease, international research shows. The study prompted the World Health Organization to change its guidelines, which had recommended delaying therapy until...
Tags: health, hiv, study, disease, medicine, South Africa
Barcelona :: Spain
| 4 days ago
Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. "This technique has great promise," said Dr. Eric Genden, who did a similar transplant in 2005 at Mount Sinai Hospital...
Tags: transplant, breakthrough, medicine, stem cells, Claudia Castillo, bone, doctors transplant windpipe with stem cells, Barcelona, Colombian, stem, organ, transplanting surgery, trachea transplanting, Spain, transplant surgery, cells research
Scarborough :: ME :: USA
| 4 days ago
Johnson suffered from diabetes, a condition that often leads to kidney disease, heart disease and stroke. Additional consequences can include amputation and blindness. Diabetes, the focus of an awareness campaign this month, has grown at epidemic proportions,...
Tags: medicine, disease, health, heart
Boston :: MA :: USA
| 5 days ago
M assachusetts doctors are so worried about getting sued that they are ordering at least $1.4 billion worth of medical tests and procedures for their patients each year, the Massachusetts Medical Society reports. As a result, the annual cost of health...
Tags: Massachusetts Medical Society, medicine, primary care, care physicians
Mumbai :: India
| 5 days ago
Southeast Asia and made 27 arrests as part of a five-month investigation involving nearly 200 raids, Aline Plancon, an officer involved in the operation, said on Monday, Bloomberg reports. During the investigation, called Operation Storm, authorities...
Tags: medicine, aids, hiv, Interpol Phnom Penh, Southeast Asia
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA
| 9 days ago
A drug extracted from a plant used in Chinese medicine has helped immune cells fight HIV and raises the possibility of slowing the ageing process in other parts of our bodies, reports the New Scientist ...However, such gene therapy is not a practical...
Tags: hiv, medicine, cure
Berlin :: Germany
| 9 days ago
A German doctor says one of his patients, who suffered from leukaemia and was infected with the immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS, appears to have been cured of AIDS by a bone marrow transplant from a donor who had a genetic mutation known to...
Tags: HIV, AIDS, Cure, Breakthrough, Medicine, Bone, Transplant
Sart :: Turkey
| 10 days ago
In patients with HIV and other communicable diseases, the availability of assisted reproductive technologies is limited by center size and lack of equipment, according to research presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive...
Tags: medicine, hiv